Category Archives: woodcut

Beavering away at Marsh Harrier proofing. Determined to follow through on my woodcuts despite the fresh input from Welsh woodlands. The previous 2 woodcuts that I’d made printed fairly easily from the initial cut blocks. This one always seemed to need more adding to it. I was interested in manipulating the blocks in various ways anyway… treating the blocks more like monoprints… with wiping, scraping, blotting etc… All a bit head spinning… achieving something of what I was after on one layer but then losing it on the next. These various proofs were trying to get a good balance.

just getting to a rough proof of the goldfinches before closedown… too heavy once the black goes on at the moment where it looked OK with the first 2 layers. In this photo the mid tone looks really bluey… some aberration of the iphone camera.
As yet I haven’t figured out how to sensibly upload the photos from the computer… crazy that it seems easier from the phone than from the pc…